Customizing Fonts for Displaying Geometry Area Texts

This task explains how to choose fonted texts displayed in the geometry area, for example, when working in Drafting workbenches, and lists the fonts you can choose from.
You need access to the Interactive Drafting product license to follow this scenario which shows you how to enter text in a drawing and choose a font for the text. The objective is to present the list of fonts supported.

  1. Open a drawing you created using the Interactive Drafting product.

  2. Click Text in the Annotations toolbar, then click a point in the drawing to position the text to open the Text Editor dialog box.

  3. In the Text Editor dialog box, write the text, justify it, specify the text height and define the anchor point.

  4. When finished, click anywhere outside the Text Editor window, but inside the main application window.
    The Text Editor dialog box disappears.

  5. Point to the text, right-click and select Properties to open the Properties dialog box.

  6. Click the Font tab.

    This tab includes controls for setting the font, font style and size:

  7. Select the font to be used in the Font box.

    Refer to About Fonts for detailed information about the fonts that can be used.

  8. Select the style and size properties to be applied to the selected font as well as the other attributes (color, etc.).

  9. Click OK to validate and close the dialog box or Apply then OK to validate without closing the dialog box.

    The customization is applied.